Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Be both the gardener and the rose.